May 9, 2018
Using NLTK library with AWS Lambda
This is a walk through of the process of creating a simple serverless app for finding part-of-speech tag of an input text.
1 Create virtual environment In order to separate system-wide dependencies from this app, create a separate virtual environment with:
~ mkvirtualenv nltk_env 2 Install nltk In the virtual environment use pip to install nltk package:
(nltk_env) ~ pip install nltk 3 Download nltk data Pip doesn’t install additional files that are needed to the app, but nltk has a helper functions to download them:
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